Joke stolen from the Rutles film

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	Joke stolen from the Rutles film
	rysmiel's recent Chenanigans reminded me that I made this a while ago & it never got an airing: "Shea Stadium, named after the famous Cuban revolutionary Shea Stadium." No, okay, it doesn't work written down, because you have to collapse the homonymic pun. Schroedinger's punchline. And I was much less proficient with Photoshop then, too, as you can tell. But you get the general idea. Ho hum.

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	From: rysmiel	Date: September 20th, 2004 11:48 am (UTC)		(Link)

Interesting. Not sure I've seen a visual/spoken joke that did not work written down before.

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	From: j4	Date: September 20th, 2004 12:05 pm (UTC)		(Link)

The visual bit of it is my fault entirely. But the spoken bit is so funny in the film but completely falls flat on paper. I think it's because when it's spoken it sets up expectations and knocks them down in such rapid succession and it relies on the words, um, *waves hands* unfolding in that order.

Jokes really aren't so funny when you start trying to analyse them, are they? :-/

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